DESCRIPTION

Vered-XML is a custom (and incredibly ad-hoc) XML grammar, which was created for the ability to more easily write and maintain the “Perl Elements to Avoid” page over at http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ . You may find it suitable, but chances are you won't. If you find it lacking in a certain respect, you can either send me a diff to the RNG and XSLT (and hopefully automated tests as well), or file a bug report and I'll see what I can do.

Vered gets translated to DocBook 5/XML, and from there to other formats.

“Vered” is the Hebrew word for “a rose”, and I came up with the name because I did not know what to call this format, and thought of “a rose by any other name will smell as sweet”.

EXAMPLE

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<document xmlns="http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/XML-Grammar/Vered/" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="0.2.0" xml:lang="en-GB" xml:id="index">
<info>
<title>Perl Elements to Avoid</title>
</info>
<body>
<preface xml:id="intro">
<info>
<title>Introduction</title>
</info>
<p>
Often when people ask for help with Perl code, they show
Perl code that
suffers from many bad or outdated <b>elements</b>.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Note:</strong> Please don't think this advice is
meant as gospel. I tried to avoid
<a xlink:href="http://bikeshed.com/">colour of
the bike shed arguments</a>), but some of the advice here
may still be controversial.
</p>
</preface>
<section xml:id="bad-elements">
<info>
<title>The List of Bad Elements</title>
</info>
<item xml:id="no-indentation">
<info>
<title>No Indentation</title>
</info>
<p>
<a
xlink:href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style">Indentation</a>
means that the contents of every block are promoted from their
containing environment by using a shift of some space. This
makes the code easier to read and follow.
</p>
<p>
You can look into <cpan_self_dist d="Perl-Tidy" /> from
CPAN for more information.
</p>
</section>
<section xml:id="sources_of_advice">
<info>
<title>Sources of This Advice</title>
</info>
<p>
This is a short list of the sources from which this advice was
taken which
also contains material for further reading:
</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>
<a xlink:href="$(ROOT)/books/advanced/#pbp">The
Book "Perl Best Practices"</a> by Damian Conway - contains a lot of good
advice and food for thought, but sometimes should be deviated from.
Also see the
<a xlink:href="https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?pbp_module_recommendation_commentary">"PBP
Module Recommendation Commentary"</a> on the Perl 5 Wiki.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a xlink:href="https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?ancient_perl">"Ancient
Perl"</a> on the Perl 5 Wiki.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a xlink:href="http://modernperlbooks.com/">chromatic's "Modern Perl" Book and
Blog</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The book <a xlink:href="http://www.refactoring.com/"><i>Refactoring</i> by Martin
Fowler</a> - not particularly about Perl, but still useful.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The book
<a xlink:href="http://pragprog.com/book/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer"><i>The Pragmatic
Programmer: From Journeyman to Master</i></a> - also not particularly about
Perl, and I found it somewhat disappointing, but it is an informative book.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Advice given by people on <a xlink:href="$(ROOT)/irc/#freenode">Freenode's #perl
channel</a>, on the Perl Beginners mailing list, and on other Perl forums.
</p>
</li>
</ol>
</section>
</body>
</document>

AUTHOR

Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by Shlomi Fish.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-Grammar-Vered or by email to bug-xml-grammar-vered@rt.cpan.org.

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SUPPORT

Perldoc

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc XML::Grammar::Vered

Websites

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

Source Code

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)